Dutch MPs vote to ban the burka in public places

Dutch MPs vote to ban the burka in public places

Women wearing niqab visit the Senate on November 23, 2016 in the Hague, the Netherlands.

by Our Foreign Staff, Telegraph
29 November 2016 • 6:00pm

Dutch MPs on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to ban the Islamic full-face burka from some public places such as schools and hospitals, the latest such move in a European country.

“The law is adopted,” said the speaker of the lower house of parliament, Khadija Arib, referring to legislation which will also ban burkas, and face coverings just with eye-slits, from public transport.

The motion “to ban all clothing which completely covers the face” from government buildings was approved by 132 members in the 150-seat house, including Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling Liberal-Labour coalition.

The legislation must now go before the Senate for approval before becoming law. It follows similar bans imposed in France and Belgium, and comes amid rising tensions in Europe with Islamic communities.

The Dutch cabinet had approved the plan in mid-2015, but decided not to go as far as banning wearing burkas on the streets.

It backed the legislation due to the “necessity to be able to interact face-to-face, for instance in places where public services are performed and safety must be guaranteed,” the government said.

“The government sees no need to impose the ban on all public spaces,” it added.

Those flouting the ban would face a fine of up to €410 (around $430).

Safety equipment such as helmets or full-face protection while working, playing sport or “during a festive or cultural event” is not however included in the ban.

Supporting the ban was the anti-Islam Freedom Party (PVV) of firebrand politician Geert Wilders, who is leading opinion polls ahead of March elections.

His election campaign appears to have been given a boost thanks to the publicity from his trial on charges of hate speech in a Dutch court over comments he made about Moroccans living in the country.

“How do we even know there’s a woman under this Islamic textile?” said PVV lawmaker Machiel de Graaf.

“It might as well be a well-trained jihadist who completed his training in Raqqa of course,” he said in a parliamentary debate last week.

Public newscaster NOS said only about 150 women in The Netherlands wear the burqa, most of them only occasionally.

And MP Tunahan Kuzu, who vehemently fought against the draft legislation, said freedom of expression allowed people “to be who they are and dress how they want”.

“It is reprehensible to exclude these women and isolate them because of a subject anxiety among certain citizens,” he said.

Several women attended last week’s parliamentary debate dressed in burkas. One of them, Karima Rahmani, argued that arrangements to enable women wearing full-face Islamic dress to identify themselves were already in place.

“When we go to the town hall we have to identify ourselves, as well as at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport where we have to remove it,” she told NOS.

“The obligation to identify oneself is already provided for in the law.”

The Dutch government’s advisory State Council body had said it believed issues around the Islamic veil could be solved “without invoking legislation”.

“From time-to-time there’s discussion about it… but it’s not really a big social problem,” it said in a letter published in mid-2015.

France introduced a ban on women wearing the burka in 2011, or risk a €150 fine, resulting in some 1,500 arrests in the past five years.

The European Court of Human Rights in 2014 backed the French ban, rejecting arguments that outlawing full-face veils breaches religious freedom.

Belgium and some parts of Switzerland have followed France’s lead and similar bans are being considered in other European countries.

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GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITY AND THEY WILL RAPE/KILL YOUR WOMEN
GIVE THEM SCHOOL AND THEY WILL BURN IT
GIVE THEM COLLEGE AND THEY WILL CONVERT IT INTO MADRASA
GIVE THEM UNIVERSITY AND THEY WILL CONVERT IT INTO A SLAUGHTER HOUSE
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Isn’t being simultaneously masked and armed an automatic felony in Canada?

This explains the absence of the Lone Ranger and Tonto. Will this rule of man’s law be respected by Canadians of the Islamic persuasion, or can we expect videos of Canadian Jihadis waving their Kalashnikov phallic symbols?

Not only banning of burqa, you have to do lots, destroy the mosque where they teach to destroy other religion, other race, other heritage, other culture, otherlanguage, other country, other people,you need to do castration to all Muslims entering other country, so they cannot breed like musquitoes, ban Koran and tell them if want to read Koran go back to your country, you don’t belong here,muslums does not come to integrate they come to disintegrate

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